If Japanese barberry is one of your favorite landscaping plants, you should think about finding a new favorite, especially if you worry about Lyme disease. Does that seem like convoluted thinking? What does a garden shrub have to do with a serious disease spread by the bite of a tick? Tick researchers at the Connecticut
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Mice are very unwelcome guests in a home for a variety of reasons. Firstly, there is exposure to disease carrying organisms through contamination of food and food preparation surfaces with their urine and feces, and potential asthma triggers from this contamination also, but I want to focus on property damage caused by mice. Mice will
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I’ve always been interested in the public health aspects of pest management and also in educating the public about why they should not tolerate ‘pests’ in their personal dwellings or their place of business. Now it is very well known that insects can cause allergic/asthmatic triggers in sensitized individuals, but another household pest that can
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Do house mice live in burrows outside or do they actually live in my house? We just discovered a mouse in our kitchen at the same time that we noticed a couple of holes in the ground in our backyard. P. S., Boscawen, NH House mice can live in outside burrows, although it’s not common,
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We have mice in our house. My wife wants to buy a bunch of traps and set them all over the place. I’d rather just get some poison bait and be done with it. You guys are the pros, what do you use or recommend? B.B., Hollis, NH There’s no one answer to this question.
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Do you feel sorry for that scared little mouse in your house? Do you think that it got inside by mistake and now can’t get out? Hah! Mice need us and seek out our company. House mice have evolved alongside man ever since their first known appearance about 15,000 years ago. According to researcher Fiona
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My husband just found what looks like a mouse nest in the back corner of a dresser drawer in the spare bedroom. What are mice doing in the bedroom? How can we tell if this is an old nest or if the mice are still around? E. G., Danvers, MA If your husband found a
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You’re probably aware that childhood asthma is on the increase for reasons not well understood. Asthma is now the most common disease of children, affecting up to 15% of children in the U.S. Most of the young victims of asthma live in inner cities and in homes that may be old and in poor repair.
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Every fall the same thing happens. As soon as the weather starts to get cooler, we get mice inside. We find mouse droppings in the garage and then it’s not long before we see them in the house in various places. How can we keep the mice outside? M. Z., Revere, MA There’s a one-word
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